I'm a florist in New York State. I've owned the business now for 8yrs. We have a website that I have personally created with the help of the web.com site builder program (DIY). They currently have been hosting my website super cheap. I know for the last few years I've been kicking myself saying that we need to upgrade to e-commerce, but never enough time to do so and don't feel 100% understanding/comfortable with how e-commerce works.
Well the web.com site builder has an option to take the store and create add to cart buttons where the customer would leave our website and go to paypal just to complete transaction and then would be taken back to our website with a thank you message or something to that effect.
We don't ship FEDEX, UPS, USPS, or anything like that so we don't need "shipping costs", we need more local delivery costs. How do you go about setting that all up. Is that something you do in paypal or something on the web.com site builder? We deliver to about 20 different zipcodes in our local area so I would need to make a separate entry for different delivery charge for each zip code.
Holidays: Us florists can get pretty busy on holidays and we sometimes need to close down or lock certain items from our website store from being purchased due to overwhelming demand and not being able to fullfill order. Does the paypal software offer cut off times for delivery, say order is placed by 1pm for same day delivery. It shouldn't let an order be placed at 3 or 4pm for same day delivery.
Does it have a form where customers can fill out a card to be sent with the merchandise pictured? What day would the customer like their items delivered? Where do you collect all of their information about who the recipient of the goods is? Their name, address, telephone, etc.
Any florists using this software? Would really like to see it working to see how it goes. I don't want to jump into anything and then get more confused that I am now and end up with angry customers.
